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Worlding Sexualities under Apartheid: From Gay Liberation to a Queer Afropolitanism
- Author(s):
- Kanika Batra (see profile)
- Date:
- 2016
- Group(s):
- CLCS Global Anglophone, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Culture and Society, LLC African to 1990, TC Postcolonial Studies, TC Women’s and Gender Studies
- Subject(s):
- Africa, Area studies, Commonwealth countries, Gay culture in literature, Journalism, Women's studies
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Gay and Lesbian, global south, Postcolonialism, Queer, African, Africana studies, Commonwealth studies, Gay and lesbian literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6V680
- Abstract:
- Examining gay journalism as gay liberation literature, this essay forwards a cultural history of sexuality informed by comparative urban and queer studies. My main argument is that gay liberation literature under apartheid lags behind important shifts in sexual activism; and my larger aim is to extend the valences of postcolonial queer studies towards a historical examination of North–South interactions in theorizing sexual activism. Gay liberation literature here refers to texts which contributed to the emergence of gay and lesbian sexualities in South Africa, including works of fiction, poetry, drama, anthologies as well as newsletters, newspapers, and newsletters. The primary archive used as an example of gay liberation literature is Link/Skakel, the official newsletter of the GASA, which later became a mainstream gay newspaper called Exit.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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